[chef] Re: How to set excludes in yum cookbook?

["Wolfe, Eric G" < >]

Pretty sure it is an array attribute. So you need to put something like 
..yum.exclude = [ "kernel*" ] in your role.  It used to be a default of the 
recipe, if I am not mistaken.
sent from my phone, excuse any nonsensical autocorrect stuff.

Cooper Simmons 
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Hello.

I would like to exclude certain packages in my yum.conf file but I can't 
figure out how to do it with the Opscode yum cookbook.

I see this in attributes/default.rb:
# Example: override.yum.exclude = "kernel* compat-glibc*"
default[:yum][:exclude]

And this in templates/default/yum-rhel6.conf.erb:
<%- if node[:yum][:exclude] %>
exclude=<%= node[:yum][:exclude].join(" ") %>
<%- end %>

I tried putting this in the attributes:
default[:yum][:exclude] = "kernel*"

But that didn't do anything.
Not sure where to put the override.
I tried putting this in the role override_attributes:  
https://gist.github.com/2832357
But that gave me a fatal error:
FATAL: Chef::Mixin::Template::TemplateError: undefined method `join' for 
"kernel*":String

Can anyone tell me how to add excludes to the yum.conf file with the yum 
cookbook?
Thanks,
Cooper